Name: These have giant shoes to fill… - Sony WF-1000XM6
Uploaded: 2026-02-19T21:36:28.000Z
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The WF1000XM6s from Sony have giant shoes to fill.

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Not because what I'm doing right now makes any sense whatsoever, but

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rather because Sony's XM5 predecessor was extremely well regarded.

But Sony, who sponsored this video, seems extremely confident that they are going to beat their last generation child once again.

Not literally of course, but figuratively.

By upgrading from six active noise cancellation microphones to eight with better processing to go along with it as well as beam forming so it only picks up your voice.

Upgraded bone conduction so that it's better able to isolate your voice from everything around you and profiles.

So those microphones can better cancel out the various environments around you, like if you're on the bus or at a bar.

In a world where there are too many gigantic true wireless charging cases, Sony seems to be going the other direction with actually a pretty sleek little case USB C charging as well as wireless charging a physical pairing button.

Sony claims 8 hours of battery life out of the earbuds themselves and 24 hours total if you're using the charging case.

And they also say they've significantly upgraded the ergonomics of these, which I am looking forward to checking out, but

First let's talk about what else is in the box.

Nice eco friendly cardboard packaging, you love to see it.

I get a little tiny charging cable USB A to C.

Feel free to buy yourself a TRUSPEC cable from lttstore.com to upgrade this.

Not saying you have to, I'm just saying feel free to do so.

Alright, let's have a look at these eight bloody microphones and wow, is that a.

I love it from a sound isolation standpoint, but

they do tend to be a bit less durable, so I can imagine that some folks might not prefer that approach.

Another thing that makes the choice a little odd to me is that one of the things that Sony is boasting about with these is that their active noise cancellation tends to.

Their active noise cancellation is apparently quite a bit better in cases where you have a bit of a looser fit compared to their last generation and just better in general.

Alright, we have a pair that's already paired so I'm just gonna switch over to those.

I like their cute little color coded ear tips.

Even though I'm a medium, I want to change Them anyway, because that was a major complaint for me on particularly my pair of.

It was bloody impossible to get the ear tips off without damaging them.

And while the sort of jelly bean style is not necessarily my preferred shape, Sony claims that these are 11% than their last generation, which should make them more comfortable in more scenarios on top of being slimmer.

The new shape is apparently based on collected ear data, so should fit pretty darn well.

I think I just damaged my brain a little bit.

We can do a quick pocket test while we're at it.

Oh yeah, she's a little bulkier, she's a little squarer, but she definitely goes in.

I for instance, sleep with wireless earphones in and I'd be interested to see if the pressure is going to be a problem.

If I kind of go like this and move around a lot, I can get them to kind of squeak a little bit, but

So I can get them to make a little like noise canceling, but

However, I do notice that they do the same thing that some earphones do for me, where any pressure on them kind of closes off the ear canal and makes it.

So whichever one I'm lying on top of is if you effectively muted.

Still, this won't be a problem for most people.

Let's try playing around with the noise canceling because that's the biggest thing that's gonna determine whether these are worth it over the competition because they are quite a high priced option.

Noise canceling technology, I can now say more broadly instead of just about that one company that also makes a really cool noise canceling.

True wireless is basically black magic at this point.

It actually doesn't feel like it's canceling out my own voice quite as much as my dailies.

However, the things around me are extremely muted.

The first thing I went to do on my phone, I went, oh well, it's pretty quiet.

Sponsored or not, I Want to hear these too?

This is really tough because both of them take a second to kick in, right?

Like they'll start in transparent mode and then they'll be like.

And then they'll actually start to cancel a little more of it as they adapt to what type of noise it is.

There's no doubt in my mind that these are a very similar class of product, which I mean as extremely high praise.

But that doesn't mean that both experiences are going to be in the same class.

As an Android user, for instance, I get treated like a second class citizen with my earphones.

I can't even update my firmware without borrowing a Mac or an iPhone, which is pretty ridiculous.

Sony meanwhile, supports both ecosystems, iOS and Android.

Let's actually poke around in their app and see what all we can do in here aside from changing the noise cancellation mode.

Auto ambient sound with different sensitivity levels.

Oh, allow voices while suppressing background noise.

This is probably worth kind of trying out.

Background music to simulate a distant ambiance like the background music of a cafe.